Fundamental Skill: Skipping
Movement skills/concepts

Exploring skipping through different pathways and levels, skipping to a rhythm, and relationships (with others).

Activity
Let’s Try Skipping

'Can you skip …?'
  • like a giant, a fairy, a clown, a toy soldier
  • making yourself very small and gradually getting taller
  • being as tall as you can
  • forwards/sideways/backwards
  • happily/angrily/sadly, tightly/loosely
  • quickly/slowly, at varying speeds
  • in a straight line, in a curved pathway, in a circle, in a figure of 8
  • as fast or as slowly as you can, downhill or uphill
  • without using your arms – now swing your arms
  • to the beat of the drum or to music
  • without touching any lines on the floor or cracks on the concrete
  • with a partner – going backwards while your partner goes forwards, holding
  • hands so you both skip around on the spot

Skipping Assignment - Click on the assignment link to answer the following questions.

What did you enjoy the most about skipping?Which way of skipping was the hardest? How did you and your partner skip together?